Italy - Lazio / Roma; G. Lauro - Circus Neronis in Vaticano ubi hodie Teplum D. Petri - 1601-1620

Dimensions: 18 x 23 cm. (on sheet: 23 x 32,5 cm.).

Condition: good (small hole in the middle of the engraving)
Verso: blank

Publisher: G. Lauro
Note: from "Antiquae urbis splendor (...)

Giacomo Lauro was an engraver, printer and print publisher. Active in Rome from 1583, when described as 'intagliatori di rame'. 17 March 1598 he applied for and was granted a 10-year papal privilege for an unspecified number of unnamed religious prints (Leuschner). His 'Antiquae Urbis Splendor' was published in parts from 1612. In the volumes issued in 1614 and 1615 Lauro refers to having worked on the study of antiquity for 28 years which would mean that he began this work about 1586.